Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reviewed the progress of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan at a high-level meeting in the national capital, calling for each school in the country to plan its own targets to achieve by 2022.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reviewed the progress of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan at a high-level meeting in the national capital, calling for each school in the country to plan its own targets to achieve by 2022.

A release by the Prime Minister’s Office stated that he said that best teaching practices should be identified, and a repository of the same created, for wider dissemination and the basic data for all school teachers, such as Aadhaar numbers, email IDs and mobile numbers should be maintained in a database.

The Prime Minister further called for an aptitude test for all students and a greater synergy between the Digital India initiative, and related programmes of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.

Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani and senior officials were also present for the meeting.